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Ola,
I tried to use the following instructions to root my desire, which is using android 2.1 and bootloader .83.
I used the easy method in a linux live cd. from the htcdesire site.
It hung on the screen that said "Checking for root files" and stayed there for about an hour. I never got the success message.
I had the recovery manager on the phone screen, so I selected reboot, and the phone came back fine.
I tried using unrevoked again and had the same issue.
So I am not entirely sure if I am rooted or not. I am assuming not, since I do not have a superuser app in my listing of phone applications.
Anyone have a solution to this issue?
Thanks!
MW
MisterWolfe said:
Ola,
I tried to use the following instructions to root my desire, which is using android 2.1 and bootloader .83.
I used the easy method in a linux live cd. from the htcdesire site.
It hung on the screen that said "Checking for root files" and stayed there for about an hour. I never got the success message.
I had the recovery manager on the phone screen, so I selected reboot, and the phone came back fine.
I tried using unrevoked again and had the same issue.
So I am not entirely sure if I am rooted or not. I am assuming not, since I do not have a superuser app in my listing of phone applications.
Anyone have a solution to this issue?
Thanks!
MW
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I think you missed root permissions. A 100% safe way:
Get an Ubuntu live cd (you can use any as long as sudo or su works there), extract unrevoked, then run the following commands in the terminal:
cd /path/to/unrevoked
chmod +x reflash
sudo ./reflash
If it asks you for a password, use "ubuntu" or "root". Unrevoked should start working.
This happened to me with my Desire as well. It turns out I was rooted.
Try turning your phone off, then hold the power and volume down buttons, then once you reach the boot screen, go ahead and select recovery. If you've successfully rooted your device, you should now be in whichever recovery mod you used unrEVOked to flash. For me, it was ClockWorkMod.
Go ahead and start following some custom ROM guides!
I do have the clockwork recovery mod on the phone, but when I tried to install titanium backup, it told me I do not have root permissions.
The tip with chmod'ing the flash file also did not work. I still get the same error.
Thanks
MisterWolfe said:
I do have the clockwork recovery mod on the phone, but when I tried to install titanium backup, it told me I do not have root permissions.
The tip with chmod'ing the flash file also did not work. I still get the same error.
Thanks
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If you have clockwork mod, then flash any rooted rom from here. I recommend Pinky Desire, Neophyte mod or LeeDroid. These are my favorites, though, you can choose any you like
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K900 said:
If you have clockwork mod, then flash any rooted rom from here. I recommend Pinky Desire, Neophyte mod or LeeDroid. These are my favorites, though, you can choose any you like
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I tried what you suggested, but the install failed due to not having root permissions, which hearkens back to unrevoked not working correctly.
MisterWolfe said:
I tried what you suggested, but the install failed due to not having root permissions, which hearkens back to unrevoked not working correctly.
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Then try running unrevoked under Linux, as I suggested in post #2
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K900 said:
Then try running unrevoked under Linux, as I suggested in post #2
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I ran it in linux the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth time I attempted to root the phone. Each time the process gets stuck on 'checking for root files', and hangs indefinitely.
Clockwork mod was installed, but the phone was not rooted.
Clockwork requires the phone to be rooted in order to flash roms.
I'll try unrevoked again tonight, but I am not expecting a different result.
Maybe this is a bug that will be dealt with in a future release.
This is very strange. If it has written ClockworkMod to your recovery partition, wether the ROM currently installed is rooted or not shouldnt have anything to say. You ARE trying to flash the zip from Clockwork Recovery by entering the bootloader when booting the phone, and not trough ROM Manager or similar? Sory for asking, but the thing some people does...
It would help to know what guide you have followed "the htcdesire site" isnæt really telling me anything.
MisterWolfe said:
I ran it in linux the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth time I attempted to root the phone. Each time the process gets stuck on 'checking for root files', and hangs indefinitely.
Clockwork mod was installed, but the phone was not rooted.
Clockwork requires the phone to be rooted in order to flash roms.
I'll try unrevoked again tonight, but I am not expecting a different result.
Maybe this is a bug that will be dealt with in a future release.
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Have you tried re-downloading it? Maybe the files inside are corrupt
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Thanks for the assistance.
I haven't had a chance to re-do the unrevoked again yet. if it should work with clockwork on, then it is likely a file corruption issue as you mentioned. I'll try again and report back.
myhtcdesire.com/modding/how-to-root-your-desire-easily-method-1 is the rooting method I used and will try using the same method again.
Success.
Looks like it was a corrupted clockworkmod issue.
Thanks for all your help
K900 said:
I think you missed root permissions. A 100% safe way:
Get an Ubuntu live cd (you can use any as long as sudo or su works there), extract unrevoked, then run the following commands in the terminal:
cd /path/to/unrevoked
chmod +x reflash
sudo ./reflash
If it asks you for a password, use "ubuntu" or "root". Unrevoked should start working.
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I've juste used your method and it worked, thank you very much!
Error: failed to get root. Is your firmware too new?
I am on the original HTC_Desire_Android_2.3_Upgrade rom downloaded from HTC development
I have tried the Windows method to root my phone with unrevoked.
When I run unrevoked it follows the following cycle:
unrevoked3 app: Pushing recovery
unrevoked3 app: Installing unrevoked services
Phone: Rebooting phone...
unrevoked3 app: Wait for bootloader
unrevoked3 app: Running pre-boot sequence
Phone: Reboot phone
unrevoked3 app: Waiting for reboot
Phone: Phone reboots to normal, not to bootloader. I do not know if this is correct
unrevoked3 app: Waiting for system to settle (might be a minute)
unrevoked3 app: Running root...
After awhile (on screen I have to enter pin for sim card but I do nothing)
unrevoked3 app: Error: failed to get root. Is yuor firmware too new?
Phone: Reboot phone
Could somebody tell me what is wrong and how to solve it?
jjplayground said:
I am on the original HTC_Desire_Android_2.3_Upgrade rom downloaded from HTC development
I have tried the Windows method to root my phone with unrevoked.
When I run unrevoked it follows the following cycle:
unrevoked3 app: Pushing recovery
unrevoked3 app: Installing unrevoked services
Phone: Rebooting phone...
unrevoked3 app: Wait for bootloader
unrevoked3 app: Running pre-boot sequence
Phone: Reboot phone
unrevoked3 app: Waiting for reboot
Phone: Phone reboots to normal, not to bootloader. I do not know if this is correct
unrevoked3 app: Waiting for system to settle (might be a minute)
unrevoked3 app: Running root...
After awhile (on screen I have to enter pin for sim card but I do nothing)
unrevoked3 app: Error: failed to get root. Is yuor firmware too new?
Phone: Reboot phone
Could somebody tell me what is wrong and how to solve it?
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with the gingerbread ruu u need http://revolutionary.io/ to make it s-off and then allow root
here a complete guide http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/index.php/HTC_Desire
So first I have to s-off the device first and after that run the unrevoked app?
jjplayground said:
So first I have to s-off the device first and after that run the unrevoked app?
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After s-off it will also install a CWM recovery, so u can simply flash from the recovery the super user zip contained in the guide above (or alternative if u want change ur rom, directly flash one of the rooted roms from the dev section )
Unrevoked is not needed anymore, run revolutionary is very simple, fast and stable
Will try that! Keep you posted.
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After s-off it will also install a CWM recovery, so u can simply flash from the recovery the super user zip contained in the guide above (or alternative if u want change ur rom, directly flash one of the rooted roms from the dev section )
Unrevoked is not needed anymore, run revolutionary is very simple, fast and stable
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Thank you it worked very well!!!!
One question left: Now I can install ClockWork again so I can download roms and install them. ClockWorks has it's own bootloader right? Will this be a problem? Do I have to flash the clockwork mod?
As far as I know ckockworkmod (cwm) does not have its own bootloader, because it's a recovery. After running revolutionary successfully, you can just boot into cwm from bootloader. Or flash every you want from fastboot.
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Hi
I am trying to backup my current rom from my rooted Tmo G2(just for trying because i could get the original rom from the xda wiki.
When i click on the backup rom, my phone reboots and tries to go onto recovery mode, but then i get that black phone and the red exclamation point. after that i cannot do anything.
I have to remove the battery to reboot the phone.
What am i doing wrong here?
thanks
The red exclamation means your still in stock recovery. Reboot the phone, go into ROM Manager and flash the recovery TWICE. I had this same problem and flashing it a second time solved it
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you are a genius.
I did update the recovery before trying, but this time, i did it twice in a row and that did the trick
thanks again
Same problem but flashing it twice still doesn't fix it?
pretty much what i said above... I have the same exact problem so when i =read this i flashed it twice and still get the red ! arrow when i backup it restarts? any other ideas?
If you get this image, just hit Vol (+) and Power. This will continue you to recovery and you can see whether you are still stock or CW Recovery. I am CW, but I will sometimes get the triangle image.
I think you have to flash twice because of root permissions.
My G2 did not ask me for superuser permission until after it had already downloaded the recovery and was in the process of installing it.
The second time you flash it, ROM manager will already have the superuser permission it needs to successfully install it.
I think that the initial (unsuccessful) installation of recovery is what gets ROM manager to ask for superuser access.
So if you have a way to grant ROM manager su permission before installing, it SHOULD work the first time. I don't really know how to test this theory yet though.
I temp rooted + flashed the recovery part 4 times now, "successful" each time, but on "ROM Backup", the red exclamation mark is the only thing that works..
DesireHD
AlCapone said:
I temp rooted + flashed the recovery part 4 times now, "successful" each time, but on "ROM Backup", the red exclamation mark is the only thing that works..
DesireHD
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Do you have Desire HD ? If so, you are in the wrong forum, this is the Vision forum (G2/Desire Z).
If you do have a Vision, then I suspect the problem is that you don't have S-OFF. Temp root is enough to run ROM Manager, but not enough to flash a custom recovery.
ok, thanks that might be it - still ..strange that it detects the recovery software as installed after boot - maybe it's just saving the information and fakes it. ?
yes, I am in wrong forum - just searched for this issue, and it seems like it is just the same.
Thanks.
AlCapone said:
ok, thanks that might be it - still ..strange that it detects the recovery software as installed after boot - maybe it's just saving the information and fakes it. ?
yes, I am in wrong forum - just searched for this issue, and it seems like it is just the same.
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If you don't have S-OFF, then your recovery partition (plus others) is write-protected in hardware. So the software thinks it's writing to it, but the data is just being held in cache. When you reboot the cache is lost so you see the old image (i.e. stock recovery) again.
Remember to have "USB Debugging" enabled, i've just spend over 2hrs tbefore i've figured it out...
I just perm rooted my G2 using the Visonary + gfree (No ADB) method, and it worked on the 1st try. I am also trying to backup my stock rom, and was wondering about the steps. I have ROM Manager, and I know that I need to flas ClockWorkMod Recovery, But do I do it before I attempt to backup my current ROM, or after? Do I need to erase recovery before flashing ClockWork?
omarsalmin said:
The red exclamation means your still in stock recovery. Reboot the phone, go into ROM Manager and flash the recovery TWICE. I had this same problem and flashing it a second time solved it
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This worked perfectly for me. Thank you!
I am trying to get Clockworkmod working on my DZ.
I have got perm root by using Visionary and I have installed ROM Manager from the market place which appears to install the ClockworkMod image.
However, when I select boot into recovery, the phone restarts and I get a red triangle with an exclamation mark in it.
I have tried repeating the above steps a couple of time but it makes no difference.
What have I done wrong?
R.
Just go into ROM Manager again (don't reinstall ROM Manager another time) and just flash the Recovery again. It seems to need two goes to make it work for some reason.
Tried that several times.
When I issue the Flash ClockworkMod recovery command it completes much quicker than the first time. Is this expected or do you think it's not actually completing the flash the second time? No error is reported.
R.
dicko99 said:
Tried that several times.
When I issue the Flash ClockworkMod recovery command it completes much quicker than the first time. Is this expected or do you think it's not actually completing the flash the second time? No error is reported.
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For me, when I did it the second time, it was a lot quicker, yes. But it worked - i.e. when I selected the option to reboot into recovery (from ROM Manager), that booted the system straight into Clockwork.
Maybe try going into Menu->Settings from ROM Manager, then selecting the option to erase recovery before flashing ?
Just reading here, it looks like I need root AND S-OFF. I've only done the root stuff so far...
Stay tuned.
R
dicko99 said:
Just reading here, it looks like I need root AND S-OFF. I've only done the root stuff so far...
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LOL, yes, that'll be the problem, I should have thought of that
Root is enough! Install it again. The first time you've installed it you had temp root probably. It will be ok after a secong install.
Press Vol up + power on the red triangle screen!!!!!
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tvachev said:
Root is enough! Install it again. The first time you've installed it you had temp root probably. It will be ok after a secong install.
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I don't think you can flash any custom images, including recovery, unless you have S-OFF ? The write protection on the NAND will be on, which will stop you.
I do remember reading something about being able to flash rooms WITH S-on using a newer Visionary. Never heard anything since though.
Give it a bash n report back, it can only say no.
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OK. I've now used the gfree package to get S-OFF too and managed to install the ClockworkMod recovery image. And I can boot into recovery too
However, in the course of my fiddling, I installed version 2.5.1.3 whereas the latest is 2.5.1.4 I believe.
I've tried to upgrade by using the "All ClockworkMod Recoveries" menu and selecting 2.5.1.4 I always get an error saying "An error occurred while flashing your recovery."
I can reflash 2.5.1.3 most times without issue.
This is all with ROM Manager Premium 2.5.0.7.
What am I doing wrong now?
R.
dicko99 said:
OK. I've now used the gfree package to get S-OFF too and managed to install the ClockworkMod recovery image. And I can boot into recovery too
However, in the course of my fiddling, I installed version 2.5.1.3 whereas the latest is 2.5.1.4 I believe.
I've tried to upgrade by using the "All ClockworkMod Recoveries" menu and selecting 2.5.1.4 I always get an error saying "An error occurred while flashing your recovery."
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Although there seem to be 2.5.1.4 versions if you go to the download link directly at http://koush.tandtgaming.com/recoveries/ , there aren't any for Vision (DZ/G2) there. So I think the message you're getting from Clockwork about a newer version is wrong, and you're on the latest (2.5.1.3) already.
I'm having issues with a bootloop on the incredible after rooting using unrevoked 3 and making the mistake of choosing cyanogenmod as the recovery because I'm incredibly new at this. Now granted this isn't an issue, I have root access now and I'm able to assign superuser and the phone boots to what looks like the stock rom. However, I wanted to flash cyanogen 7 rc2 and it's giving me a lot of issues when I try to access the clockworkmod recovery screen. I downloaded the rommanager from the market and flashed the recovery to clockworkmod 3.0.0.8 as per a wiki online and tried to boot to recovery. from there it hits the HTC incredible screen, then flashes every 3 seconds rather than showing the green text it's supposed to show.
I still have S-on and unrevoked won't run properly again. Tried running the factory reset and it's another bootloop. I tried going through the steps for a "manual recovery file flash via cyanogen's wiki, but I'm running into errors.
Summary:
unrevoked 3.32 completed successfully even using the cyanogenmod rom as the recovery file.
Have root access, S-on, radio version ~.7.28
Can't flash back to stock due to bootloop
Can't factory reset due to bootloop
Can't get to clockworkmod recovery screen due to bootloop
phone able to boot to main screen with original
Ideal solution: get to clockworkmod recovery screen and install C7RC2
Any help appreciated!
Why do you think using ClockworkMod was a mistake? It's one of the better AOSP ROMs out there.
It sounds to me like you're probably going to have to download one of the stock RUUs to completely revert your phone to stock. You might have a corrupted recovery. You can't flash ClockworkMod or an alternative recovery via RomManager?
oh don't get me wrong, my huge problem here is that I can't get into recovery, and I didn't load clockworkmod initally, but it is (as rom manager says) my recovery image and it's just not working at all.
I tried going with a RUU and it wouldn't get into bootloader properly (just shows HTC on the screen till the the ruu times out) I'll try on a 32 bit machine when I get home. I was originally able to flash on that and unrevoked was giving me issues till I did a 32 bit xp attempt. Thanks for the response!
whoops, forgot to address your last point. Tried another version of clockwork and the RA_GNM 1.8.1 and neither stopped it from bootlooping rather than recovery screen.
HTCP2newb said:
I'm having issues with a bootloop on the incredible after rooting using unrevoked 3 and making the mistake of choosing cyanogenmod as the recovery because I'm incredibly new at this. Now granted this isn't an issue, I have root access now and I'm able to assign superuser and the phone boots to what looks like the stock rom. However, I wanted to flash cyanogen 7 rc2 and it's giving me a lot of issues when I try to access the clockworkmod recovery screen. I downloaded the rommanager from the market and flashed the recovery to clockworkmod 3.0.0.8 as per a wiki online and tried to boot to recovery. from there it hits the HTC incredible screen, then flashes every 3 seconds rather than showing the green text it's supposed to show.
I still have S-on and unrevoked won't run properly again. Tried running the factory reset and it's another bootloop. I tried going through the steps for a "manual recovery file flash via cyanogen's wiki, but I'm running into errors.
Summary:
unrevoked 3.32 completed successfully even using the cyanogenmod rom as the recovery file.
Have root access, S-on, radio version ~.7.28
Can't flash back to stock due to bootloop
Can't factory reset due to bootloop
Can't get to clockworkmod recovery screen due to bootloop
phone able to boot to main screen with original
Ideal solution: get to clockworkmod recovery screen and install C7RC2
Any help appreciated!
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Did you try getting to recovery manually power off the phone while its off press power and volume down at the same time you should be in hboot use the volume button to scroll down boot into recovery.....
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I don't think unrevoked finish all The way because you should be s-off did you wait until it said "done"..... or did you stop when it said "this is a triumph"
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Okay, from a 32 bit system has resolved the flashing back to a stock rom, I will update as to whether I can get into recovery and will wait until I am told "triumphant" this time around.
Will post an update in a bit if this was all that was necessary to fix the issue. Thank you all to have posted so far, please post if you think I'm missing something else.
HTCP2newb said:
Okay, from a 32 bit system has resolved the flashing back to a stock rom, I will update as to whether I can get into recovery and will wait until I am told "triumphant" this time around.
Will post an update in a bit if this was all that was necessary to fix the issue. Thank you all to have posted so far, please post if you think I'm missing something else.
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No you need to wait till it says done sorry you misunderstood me......let it go till it says done and it stops completely..... because the last thing it does is flash the recovery
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Did you try flashing a recovery through hboot?
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Okay, problem totally resolved. basically what happened was that there was an incomplete unrevoked process for whatever reason or another. I repaired by downloading the RUU off the HTC website and flashing back to stock. That generated an error of "your firmware is too new" which is available elsewhere in XDA, basically solved by going into hboot and factory resetting.
Once I had the factory reset completed, I used a 32 bit system to unrevoke the phone (after setting debugging to on in applications > developer settings >debugging on) then I was able to properly boot into recovery. I recommend Clockworkmod update to 3.0.0.8 in Rom manager, but I used 2.5 and didn't have much of an issue. I backed up and the wiped the memory and cache and installed 7r2 without an issue.
The phone is WAY more stable now (thanks to all the hard work at Cyanogen! Thank you also to everyone who posted here!) Pandora doesn't randomly cut songs in half and battery life seems to have improved. Whether that was verizon's crap or I went market-crazy and had waaaay too many apps syncing... I can't say.
Thank you everyone again!
Hope i have posted in the right place...
firstly it bit of a background to what i did before my phone wont work.
i succesfully got S-of using Alpharevx and ROOT using Super one click
i then tried to get Clockwork recovery installed i tried to flash this using Root toolbox this apeared to work but when i rebooted the phone it now stays on HTC loaging screen
i have tried to in HBOOT but Recovery just flashes the screen and goes back into Hboot
is there any ways of flashing a Stock recovery image from my pc?
many thanks Michael
Installing Clockworkmod from the PC is what you should have done in the first place. It's far easier and prevents many hassles.
Follow this post, and use Fastboot to flash Clockworkmod again. Or, if you would rather not have Clockworkmod and necessarily want the Stock Recovery, flash an RUU, it will restore the stock recovery.
The post can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14693680
I have sorted it now worked great
Thanks